#mud

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. ↗

— William Congreve

#brain #brown #despair #flags #goes

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#dirt #finds #heap #his #keep

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#apply #because #bringing #details #different

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. ↗

— Teri Garr

#just #just do it #lift #mud #out

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#being #cannot #errors #france #french

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#family #family tradition #father #heavily #living

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning. ↗

— Lance Loud

#found #had #i #morning #mud

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. ↗

— George MacDonald

#deep #froth #inch #live #mud

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#being #beside #canada #fight #force

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day. ↗

— John Madden

#bad #bad day #day #defense #dirt